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Arturia offers 50 percent discount on its soft synths and effects
Arturia is cutting prices on its music software by 50 percent in a Black Friday sale, and existing users get steeper discounts.
Arturia's MicroFreak gets a custom wavetable synth mode
The powerhouse budget synth gets another huge free update.
Uno Synth Pro review: IK Multimedia shows it's serious about hardware
IK Multimedia shows its serious about playing in the hardware synth space.
Recreate 'Space Oddity' sounds with a Bowie-edition Stylophone
It's a regular Stylophone bearing the legendary artist's logo and it comes with a commemorative booklet.
Arturia's SQ80 V is one of its best classic synth emulations in years
Arturia captures all the dusty, digital charm of the original Ensoniq SQ-80.
Hydrasynth Explorer makes ASM's unique wavemorphing engine 'portable'
The Hydrasynth Explorer puts ASM's powerful wavemorphing engine in a battery-powered keyboard.
Poly Effects starts shipping Hector: The modular synth for your modular synth
The modular synth you can put inside your modular synth is now shipping.
SkulptSynth SE review: Cheap and confusing, but incredibly powerful
Modal proves once again that it can make impressive sounding synths for dirt cheap.
Make Noise Strega review: A wonderfully weird, one-of-a-kind synth
A wonderfully weird, one-of-a-kind synth for drones, noise and lo-fi effects.
Alessandro Cortini on designing a new instrument, the Strega
The Nine Inch Nails collaborator uses it throughout his new album 'Scuro Chiaro'
SkulptSynth SE is a $199 portable virtual analog synth with MPE support
The SkulptSynth SE builds on the success of the original by cutting the price to $199 and improving the build quality.
Arturia gives its Pigments super synth a massive free update
Pigments 3 adds a new synth engine, new wavetables, four new effects and 300 new presets.
Moog's Sound Studio bundles are modular synth starter kits
You get two synths, a mixer, cables, a patch book and adorable carboard cutouts.
Poly Effects Beebo review: A versatile and complex touchscreen guitar pedal
Poly Effects Beebo is one of the most versatile guitar pedals on the market. It’s basically a modular synth in a pedal format with an easy-to-use touchscreen.
Arturia's flagship PolyBrute synth is shipping now
Arturia’s $2,899 PolyBrute isn’t for the faint of heart. But it’s definitely gotten the synth nerd world all worked up. Now the first batch are shipping world wide and will be in the hands of eager users soon enough.
Novation Circuit Tracks is a worthy successor to a beloved groovebox
The Circuit Tracks is a budget-friendly tool for getting into electronic music production and improves on the original Circuit in almost every way.
This portable, rechargeable synth focuses on the pretty side of modular
Pluto is the latest instrument to try and shrink modular synthesis down to something portable and battery powered.
Liven XFM is a $199 groovebox for '80s fetishists
Liven XFM features three "fusion" FM engines that allow you to blend and morph sounds to create entirely new ones.
Strega is a compact modular synth for crafting dreamscapes or hellscapes
Strega (Italian for witch), is a complex drone machine built in collaboration with Alessandro Cortini of Nine Inch Nails fame. It can sound like a hazy memory or a night terror.
Poly Effects fully merges Digit and Beebo into one super pedal
The Poly Effects Digit and Beebo are two of the more interesting guitar pedals to come out in the last few years. They were built on the exact same platform and their firmware are completely interchangeable. Now the company is taking the next logical step, and combining them into a single firmware and single pedal under the Beebo name.